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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

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177 points ohjeez | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 15:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.305s | source
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dynm ◴[05 Jul 25 16:09 UTC] No.44473682[source]▶
Just to be clear, these are hidden prompts put in papers by authors meant to be triggered only if a reviewer (unethically) uses AI to generate their review. I guess this is wrong, but I find it hard not to have some sympathy for the authors. Mostly, it seems like an indictment of the whole peer-review system.
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1. bee_rider ◴[05 Jul 25 17:08 UTC] No.44474071[source]▶
The basic incentive structure doesn’t make any sense at all for peer review. It is a great system for passing around a paper before it gets published, and detecting if it is a bunch of totally wild bullshit that the broader research community shouldn’t waste their time on.

For some reason we decided to use it as a load-bearing process for career advancement.

These back-and-forths, halfassed papers and reviews (now halfassed with AI augmentation) are just symptoms of the fact that we’re using a perfectly fine system for the wrong things.